Joseph Nollekens
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Joseph Nollekens R.A. was a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century.
Portrait of Joseph Nollekens by William Beechey, 1812
Castor and Pollux; copy of an antique statue by Joseph Nollekens, Victoria and Albert Museum
Samuel Johnson, plaster, by Joseph Nollekens, Yale Center for British Art, 1777.
Portrait of Joseph Nollekens by Lemuel Francis Abbott, 1797. Nollekens is shown with his bust of Charles James Fox
John Thomas Smith (engraver)
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John Thomas Smith, also known as Antiquity Smith, was an English painter, engraver and antiquarian. He wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens, that was noted for its "malicious candour", and wa
Joseph Nollekens
…in his will. He is buried in St James's Church, Paddington with a monument by William Behnes. A biography Nollekens and his Times by his executor John Thomas Smith was published in 1828, portraying him as a grotesque miser. It has been described as "perhaps the most candid biography ever published in the English…
Smith by William Skelton
Smith's portrait of the painter J. M. W. Turner
An engraving of a blind beggar by Smith